The Latin language is variously imagined in popular culture: as a masculine language, a language of imperialism, a classical language, a lingua franca, a dead language. No matter the preferred metaphor, Latin was among the first world languages in human history, and it has unmatched cultural significance in the West.
This course, planned to cover two semesters (Latin Beginner I and II), is designed for all students with no or little previous knowledge of Latin, and it aims to equip students with essential Latin, i. e., most of its morphology and some basic syntax, so that by the end of the year students should be able to read original Latin texts at a lower intermediate level, for example (Pompeian) graffiti, inscriptions, isolated sentences and simpler running excerpts taken from the original Latin prose and poetry.
The Latin Beginner I, run in the Fall term, will cover the inflection of -a and -o/-e stems (i. e. the first two declensions), nouns and adjectives, present indicative and imperative active forms in all four conjugations, personal and some demonstrative pronouns, and some indeclinable words such as adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
The class meets once per week: on Mondays for a 100-minute session that will be divided into two distinct 50-minute parts: 1. the first part will be an interactive practice session in which we will thoroughly go through the assigned homework and revise and practice the grammar covered the week before; 2. the following 50 minutes will be a lecture proper covering a new grammar topic.
This course, planned to cover two semesters (Latin Beginner I and II), is designed for all students with no or little previous knowledge of Latin, and it aims to equip students with essential Latin, i. e., most of its morphology and some basic syntax, so that by the end of the year students should be able to read original Latin texts at a lower intermediate level, for example (Pompeian) graffiti, inscriptions, isolated sentences and simpler running excerpts taken from the original Latin prose and poetry.
The Latin Beginner I, run in the Fall term, will cover the inflection of -a and -o/-e stems (i. e. the first two declensions), nouns and adjectives, present indicative and imperative active forms in all four conjugations, personal and some demonstrative pronouns, and some indeclinable words such as adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
The class meets once per week: on Mondays for a 100-minute session that will be divided into two distinct 50-minute parts: 1. the first part will be an interactive practice session in which we will thoroughly go through the assigned homework and revise and practice the grammar covered the week before; 2. the following 50 minutes will be a lecture proper covering a new grammar topic.
- Instructor: Dora Ivanisevic